This show, being one of the first Greenytoons, began in 1987 as a children's program on Granada Television. The show name was created when Glaceon Waterflower, Sr.'s co-producers, Tim Suggeto and Tom Suggeto were drunk, and they blurted out the name in a discussion.

The first episodes of GlaceonTheVHSRipper2's World used to be lost. Well, when Glaceon Films was moving to it's new studio and Glaceon Waterflower Sr. was moving some of the master tapes of GTVHSR2W episodes to a van, car thieves stole the van, which was never found. The 16mm film master tapes of some of the episodes were then eventually found in an abandoned loft during a police raid, and those episodes got VHS releases from ITC Home Video in 1993 (with cooperation from Granada, the ITV franchise that commissioned the series). Eventually, the remaining episodes were found in the film storage vault of CBET in Windsor, Ontario, who had formerly aired the show around the time Glaceon Films sold it all over the world (and SFM was syndicating it for GF). The found episodes all got DVD releases from Fremantlemedia Kids & Family.